... market investors; helped finance troubled banks. He also assisted farmers in selling their crops at higher prices, gave aid to homeowners so that they could pay their mortgages provided affordable electricity to the poor who needed it the most, and stimulated the dying union and businesses. Roosevelt did in months what Hoover couldn't do in years. The new President way of ... would provide some of the cheapest power in the nation at the time. Washington State to this day is still provided with cheap electricity. This cheap power made it a haven for aluminum industries that required vast...

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... work schemes is the T.V.A. (Tennessee Valley Authority). Farmland in the Tennessee Valley had become very poor because of over-cultivation, flooding and soil erosion. Only one farm in 50 had electricity and half its population of 2.5 million people was living below the poverty line. The T.V.A. was an ambitious policy intended to provide cheap ... electricity, stop floods, and to make the soil fertile again. Twenty dams were built to generate electricity and millions of trees planted to prevent further soil erosion. The scheme worked. By 1943, for example, 80 % of the valley farms had co...

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... entertainment among Americans. This was done by organizing WPA; Works Project Administration. The Works Project Administration provided federal projects to clean up dirty neighborhoods and provide electricity to rural areas so they could afford to have electricity. Another thing the administration did was providing entertainment to Americans. People who watched these entertaining events paid what they could afford at the performance. The ... ...

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If you were a rural dweller during the 1930's, how would your living conditions be? Even though 90 percent of urban dwellers had electricity, only 10 percent of rural dwellers did. Could you believe how much your life would change if all of a sudden you could have electrical tools running on your farm? The ... TVA was the organization that was changing people's lives in the Tennessee Valley. The Tennessee Valley Authority's slogan was "Electricity for all", and that's what they did. By employing over 9,000 men to work on the dams, the TVA made a lot of the families" lives in the Tennessee are...

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... next several months he succeeded in having passed 13 other very important pieces of legislation and started large infrastructure projects like the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) which gave hydro-electric electricity to residents of a large part of Tennessee, and the Works Progress Administration. It was looking as if circumstances would conspire to give FDR a carte blanche in government. Thinking he had ... ...

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... order to improve the United States as a whole. The TVA, otherwise known as Tennessee Valley Authority, built dams in the Tennessee River in order to create hydroelectric power which brought electricity to areas which previously went without. Both programs built new roads throughout the United States, many parks, houses, and even some new aircraft carriers. Through the depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt also ... ...

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... workers. It was self-funding because the employer and employee put money into it. This series of legislation improved the quality of life for many people. It gave them jobs, electricity and pension. It made people more eager to work and helped them get started with their new lives. The New Deal was politically successful. Because of it F. D.R. became one of ... ...

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... a recovery program called the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). This program provided jobs to build dams in the Tennessee River. They did this to turn the waterpower of the river into electricity. It was also intended to enrich the land, and create fish-filled lakes that would, in turn, provide tourism to the area. This would then provide jobs. Although the program ... ...

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